January will mark my fourth anniversary as a year-round biker in Minneapolis, and since we have recently skipped from Halloween to mid-January, weather-wise, I’m reflecting on my wintry experiences, again. After last year’s polar vortex, I have a new record low riding temp: -16 °F/-26.7°C. It is just -tiring- to…
Tag Archives: winter
Extremely off-topic: cold-weather bike gear update
Last year at this time, I did a post on things I’d learned in my first full winter (2011-2012) bike-commuting. If you’re interested in giving winter-biking a try, go read that first. However, with a second (and rather colder) winter (2012-2013) under my belt, and heading into a third, here’s…
Extremely off-topic: cold-weather bike gear
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me mention my bike, and/or riding bikes, juuuust a few times. I’ve been bike-commuting in good weather pretty much since I moved to MN a couple years ago, but last winter, due to construction on campus that made buses much…
